Our Young Gun series gets to know the academy youngsters kicking off their careers at the Sobha Realty Training Centre.
This week, Abraham Owusu-Gyasi spoke to us recently about settling in as a firest-year scholar, who he looks up to in training and what he hopes to achieve on the pitch.
I grew up in Newham, around Manor Park, and it was one of my teachers who first pushed me towards football.
He encouraged me a lot, and my family did too. My background is Ghanaian, so football was always a big part of life around me.